Thursday, November 08, 2007

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Spectacular Rises by Canadian Universities The Canadian newspaper The Gazette has a report on the performance of Canadian universities in t...

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Three British universities in the THES-QS Top Five Bits and pieces about the THES-QS 2007 rankings are appearing in online newspapers. Here ...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

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Changes in the THES - QS Rankings QS Quacquarelli Symonds have announced that the 2007 World Universities Rankings will be publi...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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Another Case of Plagiarism in Southern Illinois This is from Plagiarism in Colleges in USA , a page by Donald B. Sandler. The similarities ...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

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Latest on Southern Illinois Plagiarism case Inside Higher Ed reports that Southern Illinois University (SIU) president Glenn Poshard has be...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

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The Leiden Rankings The Centre for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden has developed a ranking system based on biblio...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

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Best American Universities for African Americans The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has published a ranking of 26 competitive Ame...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

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The Uses of Ranking Imperial College London has announced that the Principal of its Faculty of Medicine has been appointed to a joint posit...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

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Australian Comment on Rankings A short article in the Sydney Morning Herald has some useful comments about university rankings: Shanghai...
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Double Standards Watch Several newspapers, including the Observer , have published reports of a sensational discovery by Bernard Lamb, Reade...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

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Don't Know Much about History There is report in USA Today about a survey of historical knowledge among American undergraduates. Appar...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

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Grade My University This is a new site . The idea is that students around the world evaluate their universities, which are then ranked. At t...
Monday, September 17, 2007

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Academic Selection and Regression to the Mean In earlier posts I referred to the apparent oddity of administrators, parents, teachers, and r...

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Update on University of Michigan The University of Michigan business school is not in this years's Forbes rankings because it declined t...

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Is it possible that somebody has made a mistake? The recent Forbes ranking of business schools has the Broad School of Business at Michigan...

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Yet Another Business School Ranking This one is from the Economist . The top 10 US schools are 1. Dartmouth 2. Stanford 3. Chicago 4. Northw...

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Another Business School Ranking Forbes magazine (print edition 3/9//07) has another ranking of business schools. The top ten US schools, mea...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

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Comment on Peter Sacks and the SAT Last April Peter Sacks launched an attack on the US News and World Report college rankings. There is lot...

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The Consequences of Ranking 3 The Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California has appointed a new Dean . What are his q...

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The Consequences of Ranking 2 Auburn University has appointed the CEO of a management development company to teach courses for professional...
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Monday, September 10, 2007

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Perfection Requires Imperfection Around the world over the last few decades there has been a shift from selection for secondary and tertiar...
Saturday, September 08, 2007

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Support for Norman Finkelstein An essential element in maintaining academic standards is the freedom to research, teach and engage in public...

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Latest on the Southern Illinois Plagiarism Cases I have already noted the various plagiarism controversies at Southern Illinois University ....

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A Ranking Tax in Uganda The obsession with university rankings is now spreading in Africa. Makerere University in Uganda is concerned about ...
Monday, September 03, 2007

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Never Ending Plagiarism The search for status has its costs. The rush to climb the rankings ladder has produced many distortions in universi...